Prevalência de fatores de risco cardiovasclar em idosos usuários do Sistema Único de Saúde em Goiânia-GO
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2009-12-08
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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Introduction: cardiovascular risk factors (CVRFs) are highly prevalent in and
have an impact on elderly people s morbidity and mortality which is still
unknown among elderly users of the National Health System (SUS).
Objective: to investigate the prevalence of CVRFs in elderly basic care users
in the Goiânia, Goiás SUS.
Methodology: a cross-sectional study with multi-stage sampling; a household
survey of 418 people over 60 years old who were SUS basic care users in
Goiânia. Socio-economic, demographic, lifestyle, weight, height, waist
circumference, blood pressure and medication use data were collected. The
CVRFs under investigation were arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus, total
obesity, central obesity, dyslipedemias, smoking, sedentarism and alcohol
consumption. The Chi-square test was used to analyze associations at a 5%
level of significance.
Results: the prevalences for CVRFs were 80.4% for arterial hypertension,
83.3% for central obesity, 59.8% for sedentarism, 32.2% for total obesity,
23.4% for dyslipidemias, 19.1% for diabetes mellitus, 10.0% for smoking and
5.9% for alcohol consumption. As far simultaneity is concerned, 2.4% of the
elderly did not present any CVRFs. The simultaneity of three or more CVRFs
occurred in 65% of the elderly people in the study and was more frequent
among women.
Conclusion: the CVRFs occurred simultaneously in more than half of the
elderly under study. The most prevalent CVRFs were arterial hypertension,
central obesity and sedentarism. It is necessary to intensify health promotion
and cardiovascular disease prevention strategies among elderly users of
SUS basic care in Goiânia, mainly among those with CVRF simultaneity.
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FERREIRA, Carla Cristina da Conceição. Prevalence of risk factors in elderly cardiovasclar
users of the Unified Health System in Goiânia-GO. 2009. 153 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Ciências da Saúde - Medicina) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2009.